I went to a house party once where the toilet paper was like that so I flipped it around. Naturally after drinking all night you end up going to the bathroom like every 20 minutes. Every single time I went, the toilet paper was flipped back like in the picture and every time I fixed it.

I never found out who was flipping it but that's my most passive aggressive TP story.

There is no "Wrong Way" to place a TP roll. These are the same people who insist a knife goes here, a fork goes there, and you don't wear white after labor day. The people who made up these rules are long since dead and yet some people still insist that some dead persons utensil placement preference, or how they position tp is some how law. Not to mention the fork/knife thing discriminates against lefties. Pro-Choice on TP Pro-Choice on silverware!

When my cat was much younger he would get into the bathroom cabinets and carry whole rolls around the house with him in his mouth. Yes, he was a damned big cat. Much skinnier now unfortunately, but he is 14 years old...

My mum insists on hanging the toilet paper to the back, apparently because she thinks it's unsophisticated to have a toilet where the paper hangs to the front.

I think it's because hanging it to the front implies practicality, and one wouldn't want to admit to practicality with regard to wiping your arse, because that would be admitting that you shit. And after all, everyone knows posh people don't have anuses.

Its better the way it is in that pic , it has more contact points , in a house it doesnt really matter much , but in a public restroom with shitty toilet paper(pun!) if its that way it was more surface to hold it so it wont "snap" off easy when you unroll it (in the crappy dispensors) , look arround and you will see the difference next time you whipe

Who the fuck cares how the fucking TP is hung jesus christ people, there's a war in Syria and Egypt, the catholic church is molesting children, ben affleck's the new Batman and you people put conscientous effort into DEBATING WHICH WAY TO HANG A ROLL OF TOILET PAPER.

When I was recovering in hospital and had incredible difficulty moving my body in a sitting position to go to the bathroom, I remember being in the hospital bathroom and reaching to a roll of TP hung this way. The roll was locked in, so I couldn't switch it, and the paper was so close to the wall that it clung to it through magnetism or something. Every time I had to spend a good 20 seconds of groping just to get hold of the roll.

It was then that I realized there was only one true way to hang toilet paper, and all the TP zealots were right.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Pripyat has been abandoned and exposed to the elements for almost 30 years and there are still plenty of structures relatively intact; why should The Last Of Us be any different?

Disclaimer: I haven't played the game, so if there are extenuating circumstances that should accelerate decay, feel free to inform.

Edit: I realize now that melancholymelon was referring to the toilet paper specifically. Herp derp.

If the buildings in this game were only exposed to the naturally-occurring events on Earth (no impossible-in-reality events, no destructive human intervention) then it is very likely that a bathroom stall would still be in a recognizable form just as in reality.

Except the toilet paper. I do not know if it would deteriorate in unopened packaging after twenty years (assuming no bugs ever reached it).

A documentary named Life After People provides insight into this sort of scientific speculation.

I think he means that if the loose end gets cut off behind the roll you have to touch more of the roll when blindly groping for that torn end and potentially leave shit germs for the next person to get on their hands and asshole or pussy or when blowing their nose or whatever spill you might clean up if you're out of paper towel or tissues, and the list goes on. So yeah it makes total fucking sense. It is 100% better to have it the other way, specifically due to what the downvoted guy you're questioning has stated.

I put the toilet paper the other way by accident sometimes and its just that much harder to rip it off without pulling an extra 17 sheets. I always end up elbow dropping the TP in a weird way just to get it to rip. The way in the picture I find it much easier to rip off but I suppose this is the ongoing debate

I think the bigger problem is there is toilet paper left in the world. I haven't gotten a chance to play the game yet, so unless the timeline is shorter than I am thinking, the value of toilet paper should have surpassed gold.

After seeing all these posts about the toilet roll being the wrong way around, I realize my initial thought that the flaw was the fact that you couldn't collect the toilet paper to use as a rag resource for crafting was in fact wrong.